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- Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
1: ...lso see [[Maria Theresa of Spain]], a less known relative of hers, who was the queen consort of [[Loui...
4: ...[1780]]. She became empress when her husband was elected [[Holy Roman Empire|Holy Roman Emperor]]. Sh...
6: ..., Princess Royal of Hungary and Bohemia'' was the eldest daughter of [[Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor|...
8: ...s, but she actually kept most of the power to herself.
12: *HI&RH Archduchess Marie Elisabeth (1737-1740). [[Heiress-presumptive]] to th... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
1: ...humb|right|''Portrait of Diderot'' by [[Louis-Michel van Loo]], 1767]]
5: ...lso examining [[philosophy|philosophical]] ideas relating to [[free will]]. He is also known as the au...
7: ...as educated by the [[Jesuits]], and became a bookseller in [[Paris]]. In 1743 he married Anne Toinette...
10: ...plementary essay on the sufficiency of [[natural religion]].
14: ... of the comprehensive freedom with which Diderot felt his way round any subject that he approached, th... - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
1: [[Image:elizabeth_empress.jpg|thumb|270px|H.I.M. Yelizaveta Petrovna, Empress and Autocrat of all the ...
3: ...]], particularly in [[Peterhof]] and [[Tsarskoye Selo]]. The [[Winter Palace]] and the [[Smolny]] Cath...
7: Elizabeth, the youngest daughter of [[Peter the Grea...
9: ...uency than accuracy. From her earliest years she delighted every one by her extraordinary beauty and v...
11: ...y remaining near relation, the princess found herself at the age of eighteen practically her own mistr... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[scu...
15: *[[Raffaello Santi|Raphael]], ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), [[Italy|Italian]] [[paint...
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian painter
38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]])
43: *[[Else Alfelt]] ([[1910]]-[[1974]]) - Timeline of United States pre-history (1700-1759) (3760 bytes)
3: This section of the [[Timeline of United States history]] concerns events fro...
13: *[[1729]]: [[Province of Carolina]] proprietors sell out to Crown
19: *[[1739]] - [[George Whitefield]] tours the colonies ([[1739]]-[[1741]]) to prea...
23: ...George's War ends with the [[Treaty of Aix-La-Chapelle]]
34: <table border="1" cellpadding="6"> - Uranus (15207 bytes)
1: ... past the table -->{| border="2" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; border:...
10: | [[William Herschel]]
26: !align="left"| [[Perihelion]]
29: !align="left"| [[Aphelion]]
53: ...gument of the perihelion|Argument of the<br> perihelion]] - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
2: ...onies with very different [[social]], [[religion|religious]], [[politics|political]], and [[economics|...
4: ...hese different colonies found themselves more closely united than ever before, at odds with the [[King...
9: ...ellectual growth of the Renaissance led to the development of [[seafaring]] technologies needed to mak...
11: ...ands he came upon were found to belong to an entirely different landmass. [[Spain]] and [[Portugal]] ...
13: ...lonies. Though these northerly lands were relatively close to Europe, Spain and Portugal had taken li... - Pompeii (10901 bytes)
3: ...lling across the bay with a flotilla of naval vessels to save some of those trapped in the seaside tow...
11: ...olony with the name of '''Colonia [[Cornelius|Cornelia]] [[Venus (goddess)|Veneria]] Pompeianorum'''. ...
13: In [[62]], a violent [[earthquake]] severely damaged Pompeii and many other towns of Campania...
18: ... town; and in early August of 79, all the town's wells dried up; but the warnings were not sharp enoug...
20: ...ounger]] in a letter to the historian [[Gaius Cornelius Tacitus|Tacitus]]. Pliny saw a strange phenome... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
16: *[[Claude Louis Berthollet]], (1748-1822), French chemist
17: *[[J?Jakob Berzelius]], (1779-1848), Swedish ''chemist''
22: *[[Robert Bunsen|Robert Wilhelm Bunsen]], (1811-1899), German inventor, chemist
23: *[[Eduard Buchner]], (1860-1917), [[1907]] [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
26: ...1911-1997), American chemist, winner of 1961 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
2: ... of the [[Lunar Society]] and was also elected a Fellow of the [[Royal Society]]. In [[1775]], Frankli...
11: ...y included: Elizabeth ([[March 2]] [[1678]]), Samuel ([[May 16]], [[1681]]), and Hannah ([[May 25]], [...
15: ...he [[Old South Church]] of Boston by the Rev. Samuel Willard.
23: ...ivating a positive image of an industrious and intellectual young man earned him a great deal of socia...
27: ...libraries in other American cities, and Franklin felt that this [[enlightenment (concept)|enlightenmen... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: The famous [[mathematician]]s are listed below in [[English language|English]] [[alphabet]]ica...
9: *[[Niels Henrik Abel]] (Norway, [[1802]] - [[1829]])
13: *[[Wilhelm Ackermann]] (Germany, [[1896]] - [[1962]])
15: *[[Robert Adrain]] (Ireland)
19: *[[Selman Akbulut]] (Turkey) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
9: *[[George Ogden Abell]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1927]] – [[198...
12: *[[Charles Greeley Abbot]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1872]] &ndash...
19: *[[George Biddell Airy]], ([[England]], [[1801]] – [[1892]])
37: *[[Sylvain Arend]] ([[Belgium]], [[1902]] – [[1992]])
38: *[[Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander]] ([[Germany]], [[1799]] – [[1875]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
9: *[[Jacob Friedrich von Abel]], (1751-1829)
10: *[[Pierre Ab鬡rd]] (or ''Peter Abelard''), (1079-1142){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
14: *[[Isaac Abrabanel|Isaac ben Judah Abravanel]], (1437-1508){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
15: *[[Judah Leon Abravanel|Judah ben Isaac Abravanel]], (1460?-1535?){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
17: *[[Uriel Acosta]], (1585-1640) - Time (15299 bytes)
3: ... of the main philosophical and scientific issues relating to time.
5: ..., having economic value ("[[time is money]]") as well as personal value due to an awareness of the lim...
11: ...ies that it is coordinated at an international level. The basis for scientific time is a continuous co...
25: These opposing views are relevant also to definitions of [[Space#The philosoph...
27: ...Another way to frame this is to ask, "Can time itself be measured, or is time part of the measurement ... - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
12: ...ius Cornelius Tacitus.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Gaius Cornelius Tacitus]], author of ''Germania'', a descripti...
13: ...d 70 BC the Germanic peoples thrust into [[Celts|Celtic]] territory from [[Schleswig-Holstein]], advan...
15: ...[Cologne]], [[Trier]], [[Koblenz]], [[Mainz]] and elsewhere to secure the Rhine frontier. In 9 AD a Ro...
17: ...d to check German advances over the frontier, as well as numerous forts (e.g. at [[Wiesbaden]], [[Augs...
19: ...ingling of Germanic traditions and the Christian religion gave rise to the pattern of life of the medi... - Platinum (10600 bytes)
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16: ... [[List of elements by symbol|Symbol]], [[List of elements by number|Number]] || Platinum, Pt, 78
20: ...k|Block]] || [[group 10 element|10 ]], [[period 6 element|6]], [[d-block|d]]
36: |[[Electron configuration]] || <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[xeno... - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
8: ... grandfather being a prosperous tradesman. Nonetheless, throughout his life, Voltaire sometimes impli...
10: ... a strong [[Jansenism|Jansenist]] and had a poor relationship with François.
12: ...erable [[knowledge]], and probably kindled his lifelong devotion to the stage.
16: ...en concerned in the composition of two violent libels. Inveigled by a spy named Beauregard into a real...
20: ...tre Français]] on [[November 18]] and was well received, though a rivalry grew between parties ... - Johann Sebastian Bach (31106 bytes)
3: ...right|Johann Sebastian Bach, [[1748]] portrait by Elias Gottlob Haussmann]]
5: ...rks include the [[Brandenburg Concertos]], [[The Well-Tempered Clavier]], the [[Mass in B Minor (Bach)...
7: ... [[Wilhelm Friedemann Bach]], [[Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach]] and [[Johann Christian Bach]] became impor...
11: ...iled organizing all the secular music in town as well as participating in church music at the directio...
13: ...unes from his private library, at which point the elder brother demanded to know how Sebastian had com... - Leonhard Euler (10366 bytes)
1: ...mb|Leonhard Euler aged 49 (oil painting by [[Emanuel Handmann]], 1756)]]
5: ...f the newly invented [[calculus]]. He was completely [[blindness|blind]] for the last seventeen years...
10: ...ical lectures and respected his family. When Daniel and Nikolaus Bernoulli asked him to allow his son...
14: In [[1733]] he married Katharina Gsell, the daughter of the director of the academy of ...
22: ...m|Calvinist]] throughout his life. However, a widely told [[anecdote]] says that Euler challenged [[D... - Germany in the Middle Ages (53864 bytes)
12: ...ius Cornelius Tacitus.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Gaius Cornelius Tacitus]], author of ''Germania'', a descripti...
13: ...d 70 BC the Germanic peoples thrust into [[Celts|Celtic]] territory from [[Schleswig-Holstein]], advan...
15: ...[Cologne]], [[Trier]], [[Koblenz]], [[Mainz]] and elsewhere to secure the Rhine frontier. In 9 AD a Ro...
17: ...d to check German advances over the frontier, as well as numerous forts (e.g. at [[Wiesbaden]], [[Augs...
19: ...ingling of Germanic traditions and the Christian religion gave rise to the pattern of life of the medi...
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